Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Kirtley F. Mather has been appointed a member of the committee to consider the construction of a model of the United States, half a mile long and a quarter of a mile wide, to be exhibited in the Chicago Century of Progress celebration in 1933. This model, which is a replica of the whole country in miniature on a scale of one foot to the mile, has been proposed by Dr. Henry A. Buehler, State Geologist of Missouri, and Director of the Missouri Bureau of Geology and Mines, stationed at Rolla, Missouri...
Following the dimensions of the country, the model would be 2,807 feet at its longest point east and west, representing the distance between West Quoddy Head, near Eastport, Maine, to a point due west on the Pacific Ocean. The longest north-south dimension of the model would be 1,598 feet, representing the distance from the southernmost point in Texas to a point due north to the 49th parallel...
...home farm to gobble up the town, but stopped at 700 acres. When the little red schoolhouse was rebuilt along Colonial lines as suggested by him, he put on overalls, helped gather fieldstone, and swung a pick, besides paying all bills. He wanted this school to be a model of city and country advantages for rural education. When they put up a plaque with the names of the builders and what each had done, he paired his name with the village patriarch...
...Pullman Co. was the largest railroad manufacturing company in the world. It had 14,000 employes, most of whom lived in Mr. Pullman's model city- Pullman, Ill. In 1894 came the famed Pullman strike, featured by the late Eugene Victor Debs's rise to national prominence and by Mr. Pullman's classic statement: There is nothing to arbitrate. Mr. Pullman died (1897) of angina pectoris...